Types of Poetry
Dead Poets Society
Level 1 words
Poetic devices: sound
Poetic devices: meaning
100
3 line poem. No rhyme. Syllables = 5, 7, 5. Japanese.
What is a haiku?
100
Mr. Keating's nickname.
What is "Oh Captain, my Captain"?
100
Someone who works with you.
What is a "colleague"?
100
"And miles to go before I sleep. And miles to go before I sleep."
What is "repetition"?
100
"He's as sly as a fox."
What is a "simile"?
200
Add two lines of 7 syllables each to a haiku and you get this.
What is a "tanka"?
200
The name of the club the boys joined.
What is "Dead Poets Society"?
200
To fall down or break down suddenly.
What is "collapse"?
200
"Celery raw. Develops the jaw. Celery stewed. Is quietly stewed."
What is "rhyme"?
200
"She left a million wrappers in the class."
What is "hyperbole?"
300
No rhyme; no pattern; no set rules.
What is a "free verse" poem?
300
This "Romantic" poet wrote the poem, "Oh Captain, my Captain".
Who is "Walt Whitman"?
300
A necessary part of a machine.
What is a "component".
300
"Peter picked a peck of pickled peppers."
What is "alliteration"?
300
In "Beauty and the Beast", the clock said to Belle...
What is "personification"?
400
7 lines. 7 words per line. Short words only.
What is a "kwansaba"?
400
Neil acted the lead role of Puck in this Shakespearean play.
What is "A Midsummer Night's Dream"?
400
To pay money for a loss, or for harm done.
What is "to compensate"
400
For a sonnet it's ABAB CDCD EFEF GG.
What is "rhyme scheme"?
400
"The clouds were a parade of animals."
What is "metaphor"?
500
7 lines. Syllables = 4,8,4,8,8,8,4. Rhyme scheme = A,b,A,a,b,b,A. 3 lines the same. French.
What is a "rondolet"?
500
To start meetings, the boys read a quote from Thoreau. What word is missing: "I went into the _________ because I wanted to live deliberately."
What is "woods"?
500
Not exactly, but roughly...
What is "approximately"?
500
"Go slow over the road."
What is "assonance"?
500
"Do not go gentle into that good night. Rage rage against the dying of the light." The "good night" is a symbol of this.
What is "death"?
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